Steli Efti

I'm here to encourage 💪
CEO of @close

[Steli Efti @Steli]

Just relax. You’re not behind on anything. No door is closing on you. You’re not missing out. You’re not too late.
Take a breath. Replenish. Refresh. Refocus. And you’ll discover that you can easily get ahead in the right state of mind.

[Steli Efti @Steli]

This SMB CRM calls your leads for you https://t.co/NQtHclDrwX

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@aryaan_smm 🙏💪

[Steli Efti @Steli]

CHLOE IS LIVE :)

I'm not going to spend this post trying to convince you she's amazing.

You should just try her.

Most demo videos are more impressive than the actual product.

We spent over a year making sure Chloe was the opposite.

More than 300 businesses put Chloe to work during beta. Starting today, you can too.

Chloe can call leads, qualify prospects, book meetings, answer questions, and keep your CRM up to date automatically.

But what excites me most isn't any individual feature.
It's the direction.

Close has always been about helping sales teams take action. Chloe is the next step in that journey.

Today that includes voice, research, enrichment, CRM updates, and Chat assistance.

Tomorrow it will be much more.
Let's go.

https://t.co/jLTE7W9cWQ

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@artists_voyage Thank you sir 🙏

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@_eric_alexander Whaaaat?! That’s crazy. Can you email me at [email protected] with your org name and we’ll look into it asap

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Some of the best writing you’ll encounter on this website

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

[Steli Efti @Steli]

@_ZaniarAhmadi 💯🎯

[Teddy Blank @teddypowday]

Your CEO should be strong.

Your CTO should be wise.

Your COO should be wicked, cunning, of mysterious origins, fluent in the dark arts, blurry in pictures,

[Steli Efti @Steli]

Most AI tools can answer questions.
What's more interesting is when they can actually do work.

Today, Close is part of OpenAI's launch of new role-specific plugins in Codex.

With Close in Codex, teams can research accounts, create leads, update records, build workflows, and more without leaving their AI workflow.

Explore the Close plugin:
https://t.co/XXEG4STXx7

Learn more about the launch:
https://t.co/4qLCGGrJtl

And we're just getting started on what AI can enable for scaling sales teams.

@OpenAI

[Steli Efti @Steli]

Good list

[Kyle Asay @KyleAsay_]

Ten SaaS sales realities I’ve learned the hard way:

1) If you only hear good news, you are losing the deal. All deals have risk. Champions share risk. No risk shared means no champion. No champion means you lose.

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@ELTUCOSITO Dagh! Typo, thanks for the catch :) Chloe by Close!

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These quotes are what you live for as a founder :) "We spent four months building our own voice AI agents and integrating them with Close. Now that you showed us Chloe (our native voice ai agent) we're throwing it all away. Chloe is so much better! We're pumped!

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@TyerlieOF I'm surprised that outbound would even work at all with voice Ai agents. it's such a tough thing to make work (even with humans). what type of prospect are we talking about?

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Who has messed around with voice agents for sales? Results?

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@Ryan___Doyle we spent half a year tooling this as a native voice agent in Close :) it's gotten very very good (if I may say so). But it only works if you use Close as your CRM. Let me know if you ever want to play with it and give it a spin and I'll set you up!

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@PunkXBT_ we're launching something soon that you could really like :) https://t.co/J3v8mJC60T

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@Ryan___Doyle Which providers / models did you try? 11labs, vapi, or ?

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Banger

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@harmoniejaime ❤️🙌

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ALL SALES AI AGENTS SUCK!

Just kidding! Ours is DOPE! 😂 [Disclaimer: It took us a whole year of polish and craftsmanship to turn potential slop into a killer closer called Chloe]...

Finally we can empower entrepreneurs and small businesses to instantly scale their sales conversations and compete with big corporate sales armies.

Many hype videos out there that are promising things the product can't deliver. This one's different 😊

Let me introduce you to Chloe: